Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-12-01 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:44:54 -0500 (EST), Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com a écrit : - Original Message - Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:05:19 -0500, Steve Grubb sgr...@redhat.com a écrit : On Friday, November 30, 2012 02:42:27 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-30 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:21:55 -0500 (EST), Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com a écrit : FWIW, at least the attached patch was necessary to build with --with-alpha --with-armeb. Mirek I unfortunately still have a failure in the checks with both svn HEAD and 2.2.1 when passing --with-armeb

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-30 Thread Steve Grubb
On Friday, November 30, 2012 02:42:27 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:21:55 -0500 (EST), Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com a écrit : FWIW, at least the attached patch was necessary to build with --with-alpha --with-armeb. Mirek I unfortunately still have a failure in

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-30 Thread Miloslav Trmac
- Original Message - Le Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:05:19 -0500, Steve Grubb sgr...@redhat.com a écrit : On Friday, November 30, 2012 02:42:27 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: Le Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:21:55 -0500 (EST), Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com a écrit : FWIW, at least the

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-26 Thread Miloslav Trmac
- Original Message - If I understand correctly it's only adding arch detection and syscall tables to ausyscall. Why are these syscall table conditional? To reduce the number of text relocations in libaudit. Libaudit links against a number of applications and text relocations eats

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Grubb
On Monday, November 26, 2012 12:21:55 PM Miloslav Trmac wrote: - Original Message - If I understand correctly it's only adding arch detection and syscall tables to ausyscall. Why are these syscall table conditional? To reduce the number of text relocations in libaudit.

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-26 Thread Nathaniel Husted
The issues with specific arm platforms has been fixed via a previous patch in the SVN, thus the lines, + TEST_I2S((t[i].s[0] == 'i' t[i].s[1] = '4' t[i].s[1] = '6' + strcmp(t[i].s + 2, 86) == 0) +|| strcmp(t[i].s, armv5tejl) == 0 +||

Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-16 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hello, I've several questions about the --with-alpha and --with-armeb build-time flags. 1) are --with-alpha and --with-armeb intended to be enabled only on these architectures on could they also be enabled on any other one? If I understand correctly it's only adding arch detection and syscall

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-16 Thread Steve Grubb
On Friday, November 16, 2012 06:00:56 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote: I've several questions about the --with-alpha and --with-armeb build-time flags. 1) are --with-alpha and --with-armeb intended to be enabled only on these architectures on could they also be enabled on any other one? If you

Re: Questions about --with-alpha and --with-armeb configure flags

2012-11-16 Thread Nathaniel Husted
Steve is correct AFAIK regarding #2. I am unaware of the original meaning for ARMEB, but functionality it must match the machine name returned by the Linux Kernel. If --with-armeb is not used on ARM platforms, many audit tools will return Machine Type Not Found or something similar. This has been